Francis in the text sent laments in the world "the effects of a lack of fraternal solidarity" caused by environmental destruction and social degradation, condemns "the dark shadows of injustice, hatred and war towards the brightness of a global community marked by those values we see manifested in the various efforts of this year's winners. Among these, the tolerant love for those who are different, the genuine attention to the poor and the sick, especially children, and the desire to help the rehabilitation of prisoners and their reintegration into society". He never explicitly talks about the Gaza war, remaining deliberately vague to underline the inability to find the threads of mercy and forgiveness from all parties involved.
Iraq, Cardinal Sako breaks the silence: "Government and president act with duplicity, bad drift"
In the document signed five years ago, the common path that Muslims and Catholics intend to take to defuse the so-called third world war in pieces was highlighted. In one passage of that document, reference is also made to terrorism, but without ever mentioning from which side it comes: "The execrable terrorism that threatens the security of people, both in the East and in the West, both in the North and in the South, spreading panic, terror and pessimism is not due to religion - even if terrorists instrumentalize it - but is due to the accumulated wrong interpretations of religious texts, to policies of hunger, poverty, injustice, oppression, arrogance; for this reason it is necessary to stop supporting terrorist movements through the supply of money, weapons, plans or justifications and also media coverage, and to consider all this as international crimes that threaten security and world peace. It is necessary to condemn such terrorism in all its forms and manifestations."
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